Exquisite corpse is a collection of furniture made by the designers Adam and Arthur made of straw marquetry in vibrant colors custom dyed.
Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry craftsman Arthur Seigneur launched this collection consisting of a tallbaoy, a console and a sideboard.
The collection is named after the French parlor game Exquis cadavre, invented by members of the avant-garde surrealist art movement in 1925.
The designers They explain that the theme of the game, which consists of players drawing, one by one, a part of the character or object to guess, until the puzzle is solved, was the method to follow for their collection.
Its crafting process captures the wonderful tension in back and forth decision making, with shapes, patterns and colors Limited only by mandate to celebrate the dazzling visuals of straw marquetry.
Hand in hand with artisan cabinetmakers, Adam and Arthur designed this furniture that was later covered with straw marquetry, seventeenth century art of creating handmade decorative patterns from thin, flattened strips of rye straw, by Seigneur.
En Exquisite corpse, Adam and Arthur sought to boost the reflective properties of straw that are amplified with different surface directions.
The artists were also looking to challenge the traditional straw marquetry application that is normally only reserved for the flat front surface.
The available surfaces were decorated with straw, which was laid with a contrasting grain direction to create a additional illusion of three-dimensionality.
The Taller tallboy uses more than 14 thousand individual threads, the Longbow credenza 10 thousand and the Archant console 7 thousand.
The pieces in this collection took a year and a half to make, were exhibited at the Tolarno Gallery and sold to private collectors.
Adam and Arthur were looking to explode the power of color in your workhence they chose medium-dyed vibrant shades for marquetry.
The straw, which is imported from Burgundy, France, was hand-dyed by Seigneur.
For creatives, it was essential to preserve traditional skills such as marquetry in such a post-industrialized world.